A Hostel tv series is in the works with Paul Giamatti set to star. The franchise’s Eli Roth, Chris Briggs and Mike Fleiss are all returning for the project from Fifth Season, the studio behind Apple TV+’s Severance.

Giamatti will “star in a key role,” but character details are under wraps.

The series is being described as a “modern adaptation” and an “elevated thriller,” based on the franchise that first launched in 2006. Roth and Briggs will write the script, and Roth is set to direct.

In Hostel, “Best friends Josh (Derek Richardson) and Paxton (Jay Hernandez) decide to spend the summer after college graduation on an all-out backpacking trip across Europe. While stopping in Amsterdam to indulge their tastes for drugs and sex, they meet Oli (Eythor Gudjonsson), a like-minded traveler from Iceland. When the three bachelors set off to investigate enticing rumors of a Slovakian hostel in a city populated by lusty women, they find themselves drawn unwittingly into a deadly game.”

Source: The Hollywood Reporter